Dates showing in Google SERP, for Posts but not Pages

[mhote]

Hi, trying to eliminate dates from showing anywhere in Google SERPS

Similar to this, http://www.swiftideas.com/forums/topic/remove-date-in-google-snippets/

Have added that code and also ticked ‘remove post dates’ in settings

But still showing.

How can we once and for all stop dates showing? Thanks

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

Google will remove the dates from it’s index when it next crawls your URL and updates its index – assuming you have removed the code that provides Google the date data.

Thanks,
David.

[mhote]

Thanks David. After much review, it seems the code was coming from Yoast SEO Plugin, not the theme.

For anyone with this problem, follow this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-yoast-date-meta-articlepublished_time

Add the below to child theme functions.php

add_filter( 'wpseo_og_article_published_time', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_og_article_modified_time', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_og_og_updated_time', '__return_false' );

Then view page source code and these 3 elements will be gone.

[David Martin – Support]

Ah yes, a plugin like that would also explain it. Perfect, glad you got it sorted.

– David.

[mhote]

Hi SwiftIdeas, is the theme somehow displaying the ‘date updated’, as we’ve added above code to return false on those parameters, but it’s still showing?

<header class="article-heading hidden-hatom">
                              <div class="container">
                                 <div class="entry-title" itemprop="name">BLOG TITLE HERE</div>
                                 <span class="date updated">May 11, 2016</span> <span class="vcard author"> <span class="fn">NAME HERE</span> </span>
                              </div>
                           </header>

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Yes, we have fixed that for the update next week. You can override this function if you want to now:

/* POST DETAIL HEADING
    ================================================== */
    if ( ! function_exists( 'sf_post_detail_heading' ) ) {
        function sf_post_detail_heading() {
            global $post;
            ?>
            <header class="article-heading hidden-hatom">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="entry-title" itemprop="name"><?php the_title(); ?></div>
                    <span class="date updated"><?php the_date(); ?></span>
                    <span class="vcard author">
                    	<span class="fn"><?php the_author_meta( 'display_name' ); ?></span>
                    </span>
                </div>
            </header>
        <?php
        }
    }
    add_action( 'sf_post_article_start', 'sf_post_detail_heading', 10 );

– Ed

[mhote]

Cheers Ed.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

No problem!

– Ed

[mhote]

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[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi @mhote

I just adjusted the code for the next update, so that this is not output if you have remove dates enabled.

Thanks,

– Ed